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Time is money

  1. If we don't use our working time to earn money, we are in effect losing money.


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Idioms and Phrases

One's time is a valuable commodity, as in I can't stay home and wait any longer; time is money, you know . This proverbial term goes back to one first recorded in 1572, time is precious , in a discourse on usury.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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